Certificate Course: EMT simulation using PSCAD -Power System Fundamentals

Society Student Member Price: $50.00 (USD)

This 12 week course, beginning September 26th, covers the fundamental phenomena applicable to the study of electromagnetic transients in electrical networks. A number of application areas such as AC transients, insulation coordination, fault and protection, transformer saturation, wind energy, FACTS, distributed generation, and power quality, as well as other power systems topics will be discussed with practical examples serving to illustrate the subjects. Several case studies will be applied in detail to highlight practical situations encountered by engineers in the field.

Registration:
Dates: 26 September 2024 - 19 December 2024
Time: 20:00 - 22:00 GMT

Note: All sessions are live and will be recorded and made available to view at a later date.

Speaker Bios:
Dr. Randupama T. Gunasekara has over 12 years of experience in power system modeling and simulation studies using various simulation tools. As a Power Systems Study Engineer at Manitoba Hydro International, she get involved with IBR connection and integration studies, insulation coordination studies, control interaction studies, and model development for detailed EMT simulations on PSCAD/EMTDC software. She is also responsible for Technical Support for PSCAD/EMTDC global userbase and act as the lead technical support engineer for PSCAD applications. She has conducted more than 20 workshops, ranging from 1 to 5 days in duration, covering diverse topics such as power system transients and renewable integration dynamic response studies. her expertise extends to technical proposal writing, detailed electrical engineering designs, procurement documentation, and technical bid document evaluation. Her research interests are on the subject of Power system dynamics with a focus on inverter?based resource (IBR) connection impacts. She has also published several technical papers on the topic. She is extremely proficient in using mainstream power system simulations software tools PSCAD/EMTDC and PSS/E and other tools such as, MATLAB, MATCAD and Microsoft project.

Dr. Dharshana Muthumuni is the Managing Director of the Manitoba HVDC Research Centre, a division of Manitoba Hydro International. Dharshana has been participating in ESAM for the last 2 years in his current role. He has over 20 years of experience in engineering studies using a variety of simulation products, including PSCAD and PSS/E. His expertise is regularly sought out by clients around the world for his strong and wide ranging technical knowledge on power system behavior, model development, and simulation studies. He has lead the technical team to solve challenging problems, including HVDC and generation interconnections, wind integration into weak grids, FACTS based solutions, SSR screening techniques, and power quality and harmonics. Dharshana has worked extensively and closely with equipment vendors to develop simulation models and techniques to address difficult interconnection problems. He has developed many customized models and simulations techniques for specific studies, including working closely with equipment vendors to address their simulation study requirements. In addition to his engineering study experience, Dharshana has been a key developer of the PSCAD simulation tool and has conducted training workshops on a variety of power system topics for our global clients. In his current position, Dharshana is responsible for overseeing the development and deployment of all MHRCs products and services including PSCAD, HVDC Line Fault Locator System, Engineering Consulting, Training, and Research & Development. Dharshana has traveled to several countries around the world to meet with Clients and execute projects.

Amalnath Mani; PEng, Int.PE (Canada) has been working for the Power Technology Solutions Centre of MHI since 2010. He has over 14 years of experience in EMT-type studies, power system modelling and simulation for planning and operation with a focus on IBR integration in weak grid conditions. He is responsible for MHIs operations and supporting client in Australia since 2018. Amal continues to support transmission and distribution companies (Transgrid, Powerlink, Electranet etc) and the systems operator (AMEO) with developing and maintaining wide area network models in PSCAD; specialist system analysis for renewable integration, performance evaluation and negotiations for IBR generator connections and PSCAD based large system integration studies. Amal has extensive working knowledge of the technical and regulatory challenges associated with planning and operating power systems with high penetration of power electronics-based generators. He has lead the development of and contributed to Transmission Master plans, Black System restoration, including developing models in PSCAD and a wide range of insulation coordination (SOV, TOV, and Lightning), and frequency scanning studies. Amal has provided many PSCAD training workshops in Australia and around the world on a variety of topics including Renewable Integration using PSCAD.